Natural rights Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.”

— Bryant McGill

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

“At the same time, instead of limiting the power of the state, alleged human rights have begun to enhance that power, and to bring…

— Roger Scruton

“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.”

— Alain de Benoist

“To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Human rights; they are in the hands of mankind and nowhere else.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one…

— Lysander Spooner

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held…

— Thomas Carlyle

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights…

— Thomas Paine

“The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of mankind, are indeed sacred things; and if any public measure is proved…

— Edmund Burke

“Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—”

— Thom Hartmann